LEWISTON — Not this time, not this year.

After two years of losing to York in the playoffs, the Greely Rangers finally got the Wildcats off their backs.

Kenny Richards and Zac Doucette scored power-play goals in the second period to break open a one-goal game and help lift the Rangers to a 5-1 victory over York in the Western Class B regional final at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee on Wednesday.

“It’s a satisfying win tonight,” Greely coach Barry Mothes said. “I’m satisfied and pleased with the way the guys played tonight. We’ve had a lot of good games with York. We have a lot of respect for that team. We’ve had a lot of battles and tonight was one of them. Our guys had a lot of focus from the get-go.”

The Rangers, who won their first and only Class B state title in 2009, will square off against Eastern B champion Messalonskee at the Colisee on Saturday at 1 p.m.

The road to the championship was far from easy for Greely, which played through one of the toughest Class B schedules in Maine this season. The Rangers (13-4-2) lost only once to a Class B team, an early-season setback to Yarmouth that they avenged in the Western B semifinal round. Their other three losses came to three of the four final remaining Class A teams in this year’s tournament — Lewiston, St. Dom’s and Falmouth.

Wednesday, the Rangers set the tone early. Jordan Tarbox took a feed from Andrew Hackett, went in alone on York keeper Jared Posternak and roofed it blocker side just 2:14 into the contest.

“I thought we started a bit slow, but it was good to get that first goal,” Mothes said.

The two power-play goals in the second frame pushed the lead to 3-0, and the Rangers made it 4-0 early in the third on a Peter Stauber tally.

“I thought we came out in the second really strong and pretty thorough,” Mothes said. “We tried to take care of the things we’ve been talking about all year and get better at protecting a lead and playing smart.

York’s Jared Clauson snapped freshman Kyle Kramlich’s shutout bid with 3:28 to play in regulation with a 4-on-4 goal from the right circle. Ted Hart answered with Greely’s fifth 21 seconds later to quash the Wildcats’ thoughts of a comeback. Hart was the fifth different Greely skater to record a goal.

“It’s been a strength most of the season,” Mothes said. “We’ve had goals and assists from as many as nine to twelve forwards, the ‘D’ have chipped in some key points which happened again (Wednesday), and that’s a good sign that we’re playing well when we get that kind of distribution.”

Kramlich finished with 21 saves on 22 shots, while York’s Jared Posternak stopped 24 of 29 in the loss.